The Republic of Korea Navy will use its new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to detect underwater North Korean threats. The Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) is now employing operationally its new ...

FFX replaces older Ulsan class frigates and Pohang class corvettes. In 1986 one of the Pohang’s confronted and sank a North Korean gunboat that entered South Korean waters and refused to obey signals ...

The South Korean Navy currently operates 160 ships with a total displacement of 233,000 tons, including 21 submarines, 13 destroyers, 18 frigates, three corvettes, and 34 patrol boats, as well as 21 ...

South Korea’s six FFX Batch IV frigates are expected to be delivered by 2032 and will full retirement of remaining Pohang-class corvettes and Ulsan-class frigates, and possibly Gwanggaeto-class ...

The new warships are designed to replace South Korea's indigenous and aging fleet of Ulsan-class frigates and Pohang-class patrol combat corvettes.

FFX ships will replace the older Ulsan class frigates and Donghae/Pohang class corvettes by 2020, according to the Navy. The first six FFX ships are to be built by 2015 to replace the current nine ...

Vietnam’s second 1,200t Pohang-class corvette – formerly operated by the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) – appeared in a South Korean international fleet review off the coast of Jeju on 11 October.. The ...

Hanwha Ocean has received a contract to build the final two Chungnam (FFX-III)-class guided-missile frigates for the Republic of Korea Navy (RoKN).

About 20 frigates will be built to replace the country's aging Ulsan and Pohang patrol escort ships by 2020. ... a Pohang-class ship -- allegedly by North Korea in March 2010.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has been awarded a contract to build the lead ship of the South Korean Navy's new 2,300 ton-class frigates to begin service in 2011, a military source said Wednesday. The ...